Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, United Left) | Oireachtas source

I also tabled an amendment to this section on the basis that the Minister of State would not accept the deletion of the section itself. My amendment was to add that agency staff were:

only to be engaged for short term, specific work loads or backlogs and only after all attempts to fill permanent positions to be agreed between workers representatives and the Department.

I do not understand why the Minister of State also cannot accept that amendment as it stands, because it states that while it can happen under certain circumstances, in general the idea would always be to recruit directly into these positions.

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